Transform your Customer Experience

Our award winning portal platform has been built with all of our learnings from building hundreds of self-service portals both in and outside of the housing sector, with price points to suit all budgets.

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Unlock that hidden capacity

Our Franklin self-service customer portals have been a driving force for our social housing clients' channel shift initiatives for many years.

 

Delivered on enterprise-level technology, fully integrated with your internal systems and packed with an array of user-research-based features and functionality giving your residents the tools they need to manage their tenancies. 

 

Improving transparency with your customers will help build trust.

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Implementation Options

  • Fast-to-Launch
  • Bespoke Solution

Fast-to-Launch

If you're looking for a fast, value-for-money self-service portal for your housing association, this SaaS option is for you. Our platform is designed with years of experience in the sector, and our ready-made frontend has been optimised by our team of UX, Design & accessibility experts, we'll apply your brand guidelines to ensure a unique look and feel.

The process follows an expedited development process where we only really need to connect Franklin to your internal systems API, so we can get your portal up and running in a matter of weeks!

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Bespoke Solution

At Prodo, we understand that housing associations are under pressure to provide an excellent customer experience, whilst also delivering value for money. That's why we offer a custom-build portal option, designed with your and your customer's needs at heart.

Our team of experts will work with you to scope a brief of deliverables tailored to your requirements, followed by the design, build, launch and continual improvement of your bespoke self-service portal.

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Implementation Options

Fast-to-Launch

If you're looking for a fast, value-for-money self-service portal for your housing association, this SaaS option is for you. Our platform is designed with years of experience in the sector, and our ready-made frontend has been optimised by our team of UX, Design & accessibility experts, we'll apply your brand guidelines to ensure a unique look and feel.

The process follows an expedited development process where we only really need to connect Franklin to your internal systems API, so we can get your portal up and running in a matter of weeks!

Find out more

Bespoke Solution

At Prodo, we understand that housing associations are under pressure to provide an excellent customer experience, whilst also delivering value for money. That's why we offer a custom-build portal option, designed with your and your customer's needs at heart.

Our team of experts will work with you to scope a brief of deliverables tailored to your requirements, followed by the design, build, launch and continual improvement of your bespoke self-service portal.

Find out more

Franklin SaaS Portal

Having delivered hundreds of customer self-service portals for housing associations over the years, we've found the required functionality is often similar.

 

Franklin SaaS gives you key 'out-of-the-box' functionality, specially designed around common housing portal needs. We've optimised and improved the features with ongoing user research to provide data-driven module design which we have proven works excellently well.

 

Our technical team build an integration between your internal system and the Franklin API, ensuring a single source of truth for your customer data, and the ability to execute internal workflows for enhanced efficiency.

 

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SaaS Roadmap

Benefit from having the hosting, maintenance and software updates of your portal all included in one subscription - plus new features as and when we release them on our roadmap, which we'll look to you to help us shape.

Azure Cloud Hosting

All of our solutions are hosted in the cloud on Azure with our Microsoft Tier 1 partner, for unparalleled security and performance with varying packages to meet your IT requirements.

Umbraco CMS

Our chosen technology for web development. Umbraco CMS is a leading open-source ASP.Net Core platform, providing the perfect blend of flexibility, ease of use and security.

Key features...

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Graphical Repairs reporting with AI

Raise repairs with a single photograph using our integrated AI technology. Offer customers self help to immediately resolve their issue or raise as a new issue mapped to the correct SOR/trade code to the appropriate resources can be scheduled.

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Rent payments

Encourage online rent and service charge payments with with our seamless integrated payment platform.

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Update Personal Details

Real-time tenancy data, displaying users their personal information and enabling them to update their details with a two-way connection into your Housing Management System.

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Customer Notifications

Nudge users to re-engage or provide important updates with global or grouped portal notifications.

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Balance statements

View past rent and service charge transactions with digital balance statements with filterable dates and a downloadable PDF.

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Tenant Impersonation

Help to coach customers into portal advocates and answer any queries directly within the customer account as a logged-in staff member. With a full audit trail.

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Multi-tenancy support

Enable customers to manage more than one tenant account within a single login with the multi-tenancy selector module.

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Flexible Content Modules

Benefit from a range of flexible content presentation options to build a page on the fly with our drag-and-drop CMS editing experience.

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Graphical Repairs reporting with AI

Raise repairs with a single photograph using our integrated AI technology. Offer customers self help to immediately resolve their issue or raise as a new issue mapped to the correct SOR/trade code to the appropriate resources can be scheduled.

Payments
Rent payments

Encourage online rent and service charge payments with with our seamless integrated payment platform.

People
Update Personal Details

Real-time tenancy data, displaying users their personal information and enabling them to update their details with a two-way connection into your Housing Management System.

User-Centric-Design
Customer Notifications

Nudge users to re-engage or provide important updates with global or grouped portal notifications.

Calender
Balance statements

View past rent and service charge transactions with digital balance statements with filterable dates and a downloadable PDF.

Pro Icon (1)
Tenant Impersonation

Help to coach customers into portal advocates and answer any queries directly within the customer account as a logged-in staff member. With a full audit trail.

Document
Multi-tenancy support

Enable customers to manage more than one tenant account within a single login with the multi-tenancy selector module.

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Flexible Content Modules

Benefit from a range of flexible content presentation options to build a page on the fly with our drag-and-drop CMS editing experience.

Successful integrations with...

Is your customer portal letting you down?

If you're not seeing the level of digital interaction or channel shift you expected from your self-service portal, with call volumes remaining high, there could be various reasons why. Get insight from our expert team into various aspects of your customer portal's performance with our free, no-obligation audit.

 

We'll assess the platform using a combination of automated and manual tests, followed by explaining our report of findings and recommendations over a video call.

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What Makes a Great Customer Portal?

In this Housing Hive session we explored firstly the purpose of self-service portals, and which other sectors do them really well, then we looked into what the fundamentals are for a good customer portal for housing customers. Lastly, delving into what takes your portal from good to great to drive channel shift across your customer base.

Customer portal examples...

PA Housing

Helping PA Housing to secure Digital Landlord of the Year with MyPA portal.

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RBH

Pushing RBH's digital customer service ahead of the curve.

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Housing Solutions

Driving forward digital innovation with Housing Solutions.

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PA Housing

Helping PA Housing to secure Digital Landlord of the Year with MyPA portal.

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RBH

Pushing RBH's digital customer service ahead of the curve.

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Housing Solutions

Driving forward digital innovation with Housing Solutions.

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What do our clients say?

A few kind words from some of our customers (we didn't even have to bribe them with cake!)

“Prodo worked as our partner to deliver a top class website which completely revamped our digital presence. They accurately hit the brief, exceeded our expectations on design and were a pleasure to work with.”

Mike Underwood

Futures Housing Group

“We were buzzing to work with Prodo. We chose them due to their wealth of experience working with other housing associations and ability to meet our tight deadlines. The launch of the sites was seamless and post support has helped to fix any minor issues quickly and efficiently. I happily recommend Prodo.”

Benjamin Lowe

Honeycomb Group

“Prodo has been excellent to work with. Their partnership approach allowed us to work together to create a great looking, best-in-class website that is a massive step forward for Futures Housing Group. Not only do they offer a great service, but also give first-class advice and guidance around best practice and solutions to problems.”

Alex Kellett

Futures Housing Group
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Trusted Umbraco Gold Partner

Umbraco is an enterprise-level, open source Content Management System that we use to bring your website to life.

We’ve been an Umbraco Gold Partner agency for over five years – one of only 100s globally and just a handful in the UK. We have developed over 1,000 Umbraco-based web platforms, from simple but effective brochure sites that drive enquiries to fully-integrated digital platforms that help transform organisations.

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